[Coco] DriveWire netdisk interface

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:04:12PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> I did a few tests with fusedav and apache just now.  Seems to work
>> pretty OK just to mount a DAV share in your local filesystem, then use
>> regular DriveWire to give an image on that share to the CoCo.  Maybe
>> some excessive read/writes (and the entire disk image each time),  and
>> had a couple weird things happen, but probably more of issues with
>> fusedav, apache, or just the way DriveWire talks to the local disk.
>> Probably could be optimized.
>>
>> So.. as it turns out, there is really no point in having netdisk,
>> since you can just do this with exisiting tools :)
>
> Well, sorry about the loss of your project...at least you still
> have the serial ports and Internet modem and...(I'm sure there is
> something...) :-)
>

Yes, lots of things to play with :)

Don't be sorry!  As a wise man recently told me, the only real reason
to write code for the CoCo these days is the pleasure of seeing your
code run.  I spent a couple hours writing this, it ran, and I enjoyed
it :)

-Aaron

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